On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:50:07 +0100, Kurda Yon <ku******@yahoo.comwrote:
1. Is that easy to find a job for those which a specializing in PHP
and, as a consequence in MySQL and HTML?
Depends on _where_ you live. Here, it's a seller's market (the one with
the PHP skills being the seller), so loads to do. 'Specializing' is not
something I'd recommend. While you should have intimate knowledge of the
language you're mostly (going to be) working with, having a broader set of
skills and perspective will make you more valuable to a company, and more
able to choose the right tool for the different jobs you'll face.
2. How does it work? Is there any site developed to help such people
to find a job, and to help companies to find such people?
Job adverts? Any many of these are local, so even if I gave you some
listings from Twente here, I hardly think you'd want them. If you're
looking for freelance work there are sites like rentacoder.com.
3. Which companies can be interested in PHP specialists?
'specialists' not that much, for companies looking for just plain good PHP
coders, I'd consult the equivalent for your local yellow pages for every
company that claims to do 'something' with the 'web', and check their site
to see it they're looking for someone. Most of them will try to inform
prospective employees of an opening one way or another...
4. How the companies will select between different persons which
pretend to know PHP?
A combination of education & proven experience. Proven experience often
trumps education, however, 'some experience' in a not terribly complicated
project will not impress them very much. A variety of skills, and some
interesting projects you've worked on would do the trick. If you've no
projects to show, the bigger companies might hire (or at least interview)
junior developers based on education alone, smaller ones usually won't
take that gamble.
5. Is the knowledge of PHP (MySQL, HTML) sufficient to have a good
chance to find a job, or often some additional knowledge are required?
At the current market here, it would be enough to land you a descent job.
However, the economy can change, and if your abilities are limited, you'd
be the first to go. Don't focus to much on a single language (which is a
tool, not a goal). Make sure you can use different tools to reach that
goal, and practise thinking of an abstract solutions to that goal, which
you could implement with several languages/scripts/etc. Most of all: stay
up to date. You don't have to be the first to use cutting edge
technologies, you do have to take an interest in developments, and
possible new/better/easier solutions to your current problem at hand.
--
Rik Wasmus
